An update on the AnonNews website reads in part, “While it could be the case that other Anons have acted by themselves, AnonOps was not related to this incident and does not take responsibility for whatever has happened. A more likely explanation is that Sony is taking advantage of Anonymous’ previous ill-will towards the company to distract users from the fact that the outage is actually an internal problem with the company’s servers.” Before being removed, a message on the European PlayStation Blog noted that “targeted behaviour by an outside party” could be responsible for the issues.
Following the threats earlier this month PSN underwent maintenance, prompting Anonymous to clarify that it was not attacking the service. “Anonymous is on your side, standing up for your rights,” a press release stated. “We are not aiming to attack customers of Sony. This attack is aimed solely at Sony, and we will try our best to not affect the gamers, as this would defeat the purpose of our actions. If we did inconvenience users, please know that this was not our goal.”
